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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

7 best books like Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace (David Lipsky): This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Lost in the Funhouse, David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Girl with Curious Hair

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
ISBN0316068225
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously?...
Infinite Jest
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
ISBN0316921173
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
ISBN0316925284
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...
Lost in the Funhouse
AuthorJohn Barth
ISBN0385240872



Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth’s collection of fourteen metafictional short-stories could take the cupcake for the most extreme form of self-reflexive postmodern literature ever written. Frame-Tale is ten words long on a Mobius strip, Night-Sea Journey a ten-pager, an occasionally...
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
ISBN1612192068
In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of the New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing...
Girl with Curious Hair
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).

Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...
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